David Jackson 
http://bjspring.wordpress.com
http://barbara-spring.blogspot.com
http://spring4it.blogspot.com/
“I am an artist that values the power of an image to move me both visually and emotionally.”
Born in Chicago, Illinois
Received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting at Middle Tennessee State University – MTSU , 1985.
Has lived and painted in Tennessee, Virginia, Maine and Georgia.
I find Glenn’s images to be emotionally uplifting. His colors are invigorating rather than morose. He doesn’t seem to set out to be “pretty” so much as to represent emotion with subject and color. Color? He makes other’s seem dark while searching for the same sense of penetrating the conscious with the subliminal attachment to color.
That’s a fancy way of saying that he cheers me up. I delight in the blues, greens and striking contrasts I see in simplicity.
Currently lives and works from his studio in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
All images and comments posted are copyrighted by Glenn M. Merchant
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comments and video by David Michael Jackson
Here is a new song by Drew Clayton. These lyrics are by John Eagle. This song reminds us of summer days and boating on the rivers and fishing for perch or other pan fish. John Eagle is from New Orleans and Drew from Nashville. They bring a good mix to the song.
All my songs are sad songs
since you’ve been gone
memories and love songs
all night long
My glass it feels hal;f empty
since you’ve been gone
and all I do is sing
these sad love songs
Oh I’d like to sing
some glad songs
And I’d like to bring
a smile
They say time can
heal all wounds Lord
but this song
will always cry
yes this song
will always cry
I walk the floor
from end to end
since you’ve been gone
and I dream about
what might have been
all night long
I guess it just
turned out this way
with me all alone
standing up here
with your memory
and singing
this sad love song
Oh I’d like to sing
some glad songs
And I’d like to bring
a smile
They say time can
heal all wounds Lord
but this song
will always cry
yes this song
will always cry
By
David Michael Jackson
I finally got out of the house and went down to my favorite place in this part of Tennessee, Bell Buckle and the Bell Buckle Cafe, my fav restaurant.
Bell Buckle is a railroad town, it hugs the railroad and a train is apt to roar by the old storefronts which say so much about this part of Tennessee and its history. It hasn’t really changed much and we tend to hold on to those places. We touch history and I tend to touch the bricks of this tiny town. I love driving to Bell Buckle because the views after I leave I-24 are the most breath taking in this part of Tennessee.
On this night Andy and Clay Derryberry and The Four Shades of Grey were playing. Also check out Four Shades of Grey at Facebook . It’s a tough place to film and to try to catch the sounds because it’s a long narrow room and the restaurant is very popular because they make meat and three into gourmet delight!
I only managed to capture one song properly and what a song!. This song doesn’t just represent the Duck River area of Tennessee. It’s a larger song that, to me. It represents both America and life.
This part of the country is not so panoramic as others. Our delight is just around the corner of a country road and a quiet view of a creek replacing panorama with glimpses of water flowing through rocks in a small way, not a big way.
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Song by Clay Derryberry
Performance by Shades of Grey at the Bell Buckle Cafe July 12, 2014
……….by David Michael Jackson
